I don’t think I completely understand individual rights (and I really don’t what to read an entire book about them right now) so if someone could explain how protection exactly works that would be great. Where do people create rules? If you have a rule that someone cannot enter your property, where is that rule defined and if a serious rule is broken, does the PDA (or whoever) arrest that person?
And from there what would happen?
A Private Law Society
http://www.vforvoluntary.com/wiki/APrivateLawSociety
And video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzglDS88u50
It can be almost universally agreed upon on the lowest level that men have a set of property rights. These can either come from ethics or simply from a general agreement from the general population.
You, me, and 18 other people are all on an island. We can all agree upon either the fact that the defence of property is either “right” or preferable to the alternative of no property rights.
Now take this to modern society, the basic principal of property rights is still solid. Now we begin to have different private defence organizations being set up. They will have a set of defined ways that they will deal with criminals, should they arrest them or merley have them isolated or whatever. The job of repayment would almost certianly be put onto the criminal in question. The legal precedings would probably be slightly different from court to court but the general idea would almost certianly remain the same.
From there criminals would either have thier property confiscated to repay their debts, and this would be done in the most humane and reasonable way possible, or the criminals would be fined an X amount of thier next paycheck would be taken out, once more this would probably be done in the most humane way possible.
You say you don’t want to read a book about it but if you change your mind the short section in Rothbard’s “for a new liberty” is very informative.
OK thanks, what if someone says they have a rule against being arrested though? As in, “you can’t arrest me and if you do I will enforce my rule with necessary force”. Would their “rule” be ignored?
We all have that rule. Its the property right we have in our own body. No one has the right to hold me against my will. The answer to your question depends on the nature of the arrest. If I violated someones body (rape, assault, murder, etc.), I can no longer claim the right to not be raped, assaulted, murdered, etc. I have demonstrated through action that I do not in fact believe in self ownership. I may say that I do, but my actions contradict my words.
In a slightly different situation, lets say that we don’t know if I raped someone or not. In an libertarian society, innocent until proven guilty actually means something. Until I am proven to be a rapist, I cannot be arrested.
Until I commit an act of aggression against a person or their property, my “rule” against being arrested cannot be ignored.
So if you are caught in action or red handed does that count in order to arrest someone?
So person A does something they don’t stand for, therefore person B (who was - let’s say - attacked by person A) has the right to do something they don’t stand for by acting against the will or rules of person A (by arresting them)?
So if you steal from a store one time as a 6 year old and people steal money from you, you have no right to stop them? Clearly, this can’t be so; I think I am still a confused on the “specific” details.
Another question I have is who is responsible for paying the courts?